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Adam did this marvellous reprint of the poppy mini trackball for a client needing a chin controlled trackball. This modification stops it falling out. It’s a win as the designs are all open source. @PKL@mastodon.social
ploopy.co 
https://micro.blog/PKL@mastodon.social https://ploopy.co
Want to access Panels editor in Mac? Access it here
/System/Library/Input Methods/Assistive Control.app/Contents/Resources/Panel Editor.app
Pin it to your dock (saves you opening in rather wierd way via system settings)
Been working with Sherpa-Onnx TTS a lot over the last year. It’s a nice project to make a onnx runtime for lots of different languages and interfaces. Just whipped together a Gradio demo to show all the voices and hear them - most notably MMS Onnx models Sherpa-Onnx Demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/willwade/sherpa-onnx-tts
Great episode on TTS on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e…
Monkey Management https://willwa.de/2024/04/15/monkey-management.html
From Ask for Advice, Not Permission
"The problem with permission is that you are implicitly asking someone else to take some responsibility for your decision. You aren’t inviting them to participate in its success — permission is hardly seen as a value adding behavior — but if it goes wrong you might end up involving them in the failure: “Hey, I asked that team and they said it was fine."
and
"Advice, on the other hand, is easy. “Hey, I was thinking about doing X, what advice would you give me on that?” In this instance you are showing a lot of respect to the person you are asking but not saddling... willwa.de https://willwa.de/2024/08/18/ask-for-advice.html
Published our py3-tts-wrapper python library finally this week. Should power a lot of funky things. Supports all the major TTS engines online and new ones offline. Use alongside this app to see what voices are available (API here)
https://pypi.org/project/py3-tts-wrapper/#description https://ttsvoicesavailable.streamlit.app https://ttsvoices.acecentre.net/docs
Sometimes you have to do the hard graft as nobody else wants to. huggingface.co/willwade/… - all ONNX models of the Meta MMS Text to Speech models (code: github.com/willwade/… - and all suitable for sherpa-onnx)
https://huggingface.co/willwade/mms-tts-multilingual-models-onnx/tree/main https://github.com/willwade/mms-tts-multilingual-models-onnx
I made a quick video demonstrating our relaykeys dongle-dongle setup. I’m pleased we did this—it makes the headache people have of pairing devices, etc., go totally away, and we can also use it on things that don’t support Bluetooth well.
.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; heigh... willwa.de https://willwa.de/2024/07/03/i-made-a.html
After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (and I was completely clueless)
"“Lawyers, as they should be, are often about risk mitigation for both sides. But it’s important the parties in the deal be clear on what is valuable to them or understand how big the risks really are so that neither side gets bogged down in details or risks which are unimportant or have a low probability of happening."
https://anandsanwal.me/2018/06/19/dad-company-sale/#differences
Orion – From idea to launch in 45 days
https://www.lux.camera/orion-from-idea-to-launch-in-45-days/
This is just the most awesome radiolab episode. I can’t believe I have missed this one. It’s about Emilie and path through rehabilitation. I can’t even start to explain the aweseomeness of this. Just listen radiolab.org/podcast/f…
Aqua Voice
"Aqua Voice feels as natural as talking someone at a keyboard. It writes what you say, but it also does what you say."
"We achieve these interactions using an ensemble of models fused together in a way that allows them to understand your intent, not just what you literally said."
"Examples"
"Remember that the meeting is on Thursday. - Friday, Friday."
"->"
"Remember that the meeting is on Friday."
"(Implicit Correction)"
It looks neat. $10/month. See the video demo
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I’ve often pondered on a deceloping a rotary encoder with a push down action as a technique for accessing our auditory scanning app echo. One day we might do it and if so I’ll look at this project.
"GitHub - carlosefr/spinner-mouse: Arduino-based USB rotary controller for arcade Arkanoid, Tempest, etc. github.com
Reader: github.com
GitHub: Let’s build from here https://github.com/carlosefr/spinner-mouse?tab=readme-ov-file#spinner-mouse-game-controller
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/echo-auditory-scanning/id6451412975 https://github.com/carlosefr/spinner-mouse?tab=readme-ov-file#spinner-mouse-game-controller https://micro.blog/bookmarks/6653542 https://github.com/carlosefr/spinner-mouse?tab=readme-ov-file#spinner-mouse-game-controller
inclusive sans. Brilliant name. You had me at “character level”. Excellent font. Particularly like the nod to the minority languages close to home for Olivia; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
"I was inspired to create a typeface that was truly legible at a character level. While some typefaces had been created in the same spirit, I wanted to create a font that was more contemporary and usable as a text typeface for all types of use."
"Inclusive Sans — Olivia King oliviaking.com
Reader: www.oliviaking.com
Olivia King https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans
https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans https://micro.blog/bookmarks/6652775 https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans
Iterative rapid development can lead to success.. (aka Judith Part 2). https://willwa.de/2024/03/26/iterative-rapid-development.html
Cognitive effect on breaking sitting time https://willwa.de/2024/03/26/cognitive-effect-on.html
Back to the 90s with my retro dataset of SMS, TXT abbreviations.. huggingface.co/datasets/… Maybe of use to someone out their creating a GEC model ;)
https://huggingface.co/datasets/willwade/txt-sms-abbreviations
I’ve been considering LLMs' potential in autocorrecting AAC input. They offer significant gains, but user-guided inference still excels. Yvette’s video demonstrates this: 32 WPM using a glide pad in Dasher. Anyone faster?! We must get a new version developed.
youtu.be/va1WufK86…